Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

metronormative

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: metronor-ma-tive
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to the ideals and narratives that assert that all queer people live more prosperous lives in urban cities over rural places.

Example Sentences

"Metronormative thinking links welcoming, safe, and liberated with the city and dangerous, homophobic, and closeted with the rural."
"Metronormative narratives treat rural regions as a spatial closet out of which LGBTQ+ people must emerge by moving to the city and realizing “the full expression of the sexual self.""

Etymology

From metro- + normative.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: metro

Inflected Forms

more metronormative (comparative) most metronormative (superlative)

Derived Forms

metronormativity

Questions

What does metronormative mean?: Of or pertaining to the ideals and narratives that assert that all queer people live more prosperous lives in urban cities over rural places.
Where does metronormative come from?: From metro- + normative.

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